Majority-GOP Legislature Wants to Change Makeup of State Courts in Its Favor
As early as May 18's primary election, Pennsylvania voters could be asked to overhaul how they elect state Supreme Court justices and appellate court judges.
As early as May 18's primary election, Pennsylvania voters could be asked to overhaul how they elect state Supreme Court justices and appellate court judges.
The nearly Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority workers represented by the Transport Workers Union Local 234 called SEPTA's policy “Scrooge-like."
The group says the $100 million project will harm the historically Black neighborhoods around it.
Biden has pledged to spend billions making major infrastructure improvements and on retrofitting initiatives that can help the US battle climate change.
“We are the state that returned the dignity and honor to the United States of America,” said the president of Pennsylvania's Electoral College.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court.
“The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated," the lawyers wrote.
The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.
President Donald Trump's campaign continues to press lawsuits over Pennsylvania's election, appealing another case it lost to the state Supreme Court, this time over fewer than 2,000 ballots in a suburban Philadelphia county.
Justice Samuel Alito ordered the state's lawyers to respond by Dec. 9, a day after what is known as the safe harbor deadline. Congress cannot challenge any electors named by Dec. 8 in accordance with state law.